What was that loud bang in Salford?

Residents have been left baffled after hearing a mysterious deafening bang in Salford.
Residents reported hearing a huge bang in Boothstown at around 1pm on Sunday afternoon, but the cause remains a mystery.
Ann Leather lives near the East Lancs Road and was started by the noise.
Ann says the noise was too loud to be firework or car backfiring.
She said: “It was very loud. I was standing on the garden path talking to neighbour and there was just this really loud bang. We almost jumped out of our skin.
“We haven’t seen any smoke, it was just this bang.
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